RUSTIC ORNAMENTS. 



said that it i.s iliflitult to look at any objects with pleasure (unless 

 from brutal or tumultuous emotious,) without feeling that disposition 

 tends towards kindness and benevolence, and 

 surd}' whatever creates such a disposition, by 

 increasing our pleasures and enjoyments, can- 

 not bo too much cultivated. Every one has 

 seen specimens of castings in Berlin iron, but 

 large examples rarely fmd their way to this 

 country. Tlie annexed Fig. 1 represents a 

 garden gate between the residences of two 

 intimate friends on the banks of the Elbe near 

 Dresden, in Saxony ; each family has a key, and 

 the gate being kept always locked intruders are 

 excluded. The material is Berlin iron of the 

 finest kind; the taste appeared to us perfect, and 

 may safely be imitated. The castings of lamp- 

 posts and various other things in Berlin are 

 often examples of perfect beauty. 



whore it 

 of mind, 



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EIG. 1. 



In the same garden occurs 

 a beautiful summer house. 

 Fig. 2. The front with the 

 statue faces the house; as- 

 cending the stairs you find 

 yourself screened from the 

 dwelling and overlooking the 

 beautiful Elbe below. The 

 summer house stands on a 

 terraced wall at a bend of 

 the river, and you enjoy a 

 view up the stream towards 

 the virgin castle of Kcienig- 

 stein and Saxon Switzerland, 

 ^^^^:^= small steam and sail boats 

 ^ passing almost at your feet 



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ur third example (Fig. 3) is a garden arbor, partly of carved wood, which 



